They'll Surprise You Every Time!

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I see Brandon in my class room every day. I know he is intelligent and gifted in many ways. What I did not realize was that he is also sentimental. Not sure it's "cool" to be sentimental as a teenage boy - - - so maybe that's why he hid THAT particular attribute from me.

The other day his friends brought in a copy of a poem that Brandon had published in a collection of poems by high school students.

I was blown out of the water. Brandon captured so eloquently the poignant loss we each feel when we move from one home to another - - - one stage of life to the next.

Here, with his permission, is that poem.

Forgotten

Boxes upon boxes, piled as high as one can see
Filled with various items ---
Each and every one of them with an emotional attachment
With great sentimental value and importance
Being whisked away from their previous dwelling
Leaving nothing but a dusty outline where they used to be
Only to be placed in another location
While their owners go about as always
As if their first home never existed . . .
Life slowly abandons the quaint little house
Filled with precious memories of life and death
All of which will be forgotten in the flow of time ---
Until the next generation comes
Looking for a place for their boxes
A place for new memories to be born . . .

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